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Postamputation pain and sensory changes in treatment-naive patients: characteristics and responses to treatment with tramadol, amitriptyline, and placebo.
Anesthesiology - 1 Sept 2005
Wilder-Smith Clive H, Hill Lauren T, Laurent Sophie
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BACKGROUND: Pain after amputation is common but difficult to treat, and few controlled treatment studies exist. METHODS: In the current study, 94 treatment-naive posttraumatic limb amputees with phantom pain (intensity: mean visual analog scale score [0-100], 40 [95% confidence interval, 38-41]) were randomly assigned to receive individually titrated doses of tramadol, placebo (double-blind comparison), or...
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